Belt



C. E. GREENWALD, DECD.

S. B. GREENWALD, ADMINISTRA IX.

BELT.

APPLPCATION HLED OCT. 24, 1919.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

I E gnm'uYcz T Char/e5 E. Cireenwa/d MWM ' (Tll'cwc UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. GREENVVALD, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON; SALLIE B. GREENWALD ADMINISTRATRIX'OF $AID CHARLES E. GREENWALD, DECEASED.

BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

Application filed October 24, 1919. Serial No. 333,028.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLns E. GREEN- .wALn, a citizen of the United States, residing, at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belts, of which the following is a specification.

I The present invention relates to improvements in belts for personal wear, specially adapted for men and designed to be substituted for the customary pair of suspenders,

in supporting the trousers at the waistband pressure on or restriction of the stomach.

One of the especially meritorious features of the invention is the fact that the added elementsof the invention do not change or alter the appearance of the belt customarily worn, and another attractive factor of the invention is the fact that the hip pads or re inforcements perform their function of sup porting thebelt on the hips without in any way distorting or disarranging the belt or the trousers which they support, but rather the belt itself affords means for keeping and maintaining the trousers in proper position about the waist of the wearer; and these added and valuable characteristics are at tained with but insignificant and slightly increased cost in the manufacture of the belt.

In the accompanying drawings one complete example of the physical embodiment of the invention is illustrated, the belt being constructed and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical applicationof the principles of the invention, and numerous belts as depicted in the drawings have proven highly satisfactory, healthful and comfortable to the wearers in their actual use.

The invention consists essentially in a belt particularly adapted for mens wear, having a continuous, smooth inner and outer surface, and fashioned with specially formed thickened side portions or hip pads adapted to seat or rest upon the hips of the wearer, and grip over the hip bones and muscles to support the trousers at the waistband. While the belt is rather tight, or has a grip over the hip bones, at the front and rear, the belt is comparatively loose in order to reheve pressure or prevent restriction of the stomach. And further the invention cons stsin the special arrangement and positioning of these hip pads of the belt to compensate for the extension or contraction of the length of the belt around the waist, when required, as for instance ,after a hearty meal. or when a hearty meal is desirable, in order that the hip pads may remain in effectively correct position with relation to the hips under all circumstances.

To this end the invention involves certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter pointed out and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a perspective View of a belt made according to and embodying the novel features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the reinforcing strips or hip pads, of leather, composition, or other material suitable for the purpose required.

through thebelt, the padandthe innerlayer or liningbf the belt, showing thestitches passing through these three elements or members of the device.

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic chart devised for the manufacturer of the belt when making the various or different sizes required for different wearers, each of the concentric circles representing a belt of a different size and indicating the exact and correct position or location of the opposed hip pads on each size belt.

In the preferred and perfected form of the invention shown in the drawings above referred to, a leather belt or strap 1 is depicted, of usual and conservative shape and style, having the standard form of buckle 2 secured at one end thereof, and the free end Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the belt indicated at 3 has the perforaillustration and inspection, the pad being designated asa whole by the numeral 7 and it being understood that two of the pads are used with each belt, the pads, although similar in shape and construction and finish, are

somewhat different in length as will be noted in the chart Fig. 4, and as will be referred to hereinafter.

The pads are made of leather, composite material, or any other suitable material, which, while flexible than the belt 1, yet remains flexible as required for the performance of its functions. In Fig. 2, the two ends 8 of the pad are brought down to a thin edge, and the upper and lower edges 9, 9, are also brought down to a thin edge, while the body of the pad tapers longitudinally as at 10 10 to the ends 8 and also tapers off or is beveled at 11 11 into the thin edges 9 9 at the bottom and top of the pad The pads are inserted between the leather belt 1 and its inner lining or layer 12, so that the tapered ends 10 merging into the thin edges 8 provide a smooth surface on the inner lining of the belt as the lining gradually conforms to the inner normal surface of the belt. The beveled edges or faces, 11, at top and bottom of the pad make a more abrupt angle, between the innermost line'of the padded part of the belt and its outer edge, than do the tapering faces 10 at the ends of the pad, but a comparatively broad, substantial, approximately fiat face 7 is fashioned on the pad to provide a similar face 12 on the lining at the inner side of I the pad while the latter is in position. The V lining of hip pads secured therebetween and having beveled upper and lower edges and tapered ends to Y provide a continuous,

two rows of stitches 18, 13 at the upper and lower edges of the belt pass through the three thicknesses of the belt, pad and lining, and secure the pad in proper position between the lining and belt or strap.

In the chart Fig. 4, the pads extend bethe pad per se is stiffer or less side-of the belts have their centers marked C, while those at the right side are turned to lie in reverse position to those at the left, slightly in advance of the pads at the left in order to compensate for any take up or 'let out-of the belt at any time, and hold the pads in position on the hips.

In putting on the belt the wearer draws the buckle to the usual tension for comfort, and the natural curve or contour of the belt around the Waist is not changed or disturbed or altered from the old style belt, but as the result of the presence of the hip pads which thicken or distend the opposite sides of the belt, the diameter of the belt from theinner walls of the belt at 12 12 is decreased and less than would be the diameter with the unaltered belt; WVhen in proper position the hip pads rest or seat upon top of the hip bones and muscles, with a secure grip, not

too tight, but tight enough to allow the pads to rest on top of the hips instead of at the sides of the hips. Thus the hip pads, which are not visible to the observer and which do not alter at all the smooth outer surface or contour of the belt, are felt with satisfaction by the wearer whose belt is thus left slightly slack at the front over the stomach and atthe rear across the middle of the back, with its accompanying comfort and-convenience while the pads, exclusively, perform the function of gripping the wearer and hanging his trousers on his hips to support the trousers.

What I claim is- The combination with the belt and its CHARLES E. GREENWALD. 

